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Touch DNA

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On Monday the Washington Post reported, "DNA Technology Moves Forward," on the latest advances in testing. When the Maryland State Police lab told her that the evidence didn't contain enough bodily fluid for a complete DNA profile, Shelly Progovitz was crushed. A man who had brutally raped a 12-year-old girl behind a middle school in Waldorf in 1996 and then tied her hands and feet and forced a sock into her mouth would never be convicted for what he had done. But Progovitz, a crime scene technician, did not let her disappointment keep her on the sidelines long. That night, she went home and searched on Google for something she had read about in scientific journals but had never used: "touch DNA." In April, after Progovitz had resubmitted the case to a private lab in Virginia, she got a different kind of call...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).